1993 Mazda MX6 LS from North America - Comments

I bought my Mazda MX-6 from a college student that did not have money to do repairs to the car. After doing a small tear-down inspection and very abusive test drive, a car that was not maintained and had 155000 miles on it was sold to me for $600.

The car had a bad caliper on the driver's side rear tire. I replaced the caliper for $85 from Napa auto parts.

The front struts were bad and cost me $200 for the parts and $55 for a front and rear wheel alignment.

For some strange reason, the windsheild wiper light is on as a warning light on the instrument panel. This is strange because everything for the wiper system works great.

The motor has a rhythmic vibration when warming up, but after the car has come up to operating temperature (2 minutes) it has a beautiful idle. I need to get that checked out.

I purchased this car for $600. It is a 1993 and has poor maintenance if little ever done to it and the car is immaculate.

There is very little rust on this vehicle and after a good waxing, the paint looks beautiful and is black in color.

The moon roof works with flawless operation.

The transmission shifts smoothly when driven in a mild manner, and when beaten on... it shifts so firmly it makes you say, "Whoa!"

The engine, with 155734 miles on it, has so much power you don't realize just how fast you are going. I read on the internet that this car has only 160 horsepower. I am going to order a used engine in long-block form with a manual transmission for only $1325.00. This package will have 30,000 miles on it and will increase the horsepower from 160 to 220. The motor and transmission will come from Japan where just about all of the sports cars have more power than their United States versions of the same car. I am doing this because this car handles so good I am going to enter it in Sports Car Club Association events on a road course track.

I will probably add a performance suspension package from Eibach and some strut bars to make sure the chassis doesn't do anything weird.

I love this car. I can't say anything bad about it at all. I bet the original motor and transmission push another car to the 250000 mile mark while passing emissions. Does anybody want it? usand3kids@peoplepc.com.

I love my Mx6 and my boyfriend knows I can never get rid of my first car because it's my baby, so he looked for the cheapest, best motor swap he could and he found that you can get a JDM motor swap for this car with a turbo set up for roughly $1100!

I have the japanese version of the 2.5l V6. its actually 197 hp. if you like the A-SPEC version then you will fall in love with the jspec. very noticable difference in power. I suggest upgrade the clutch to at least a stage 1 to compensate for hte power increase. using a V6 MX-3's flywheel is a nice upgrade to. it is 14lbs as opposed to 22.

If the original poster ever gets back to this page I'd be curious to know if you've completed your upgrades and have gone racing yet. When I owned a 93 Mystere I wondered why they weren't more prevalent in track racing. Even stock with the 165 hp engine and suspension I thought mine went and handled pretty well and would have made a good basis for lightening and tweaking. So if you have gone racing tell up how you made out against the competition.